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James VI (Jame + vi)
Selected AbstractsMilitant Protestants: British Identity in the Jacobean Period, 1603,1625HISTORY, Issue 314 2009JASON C. WHITE The ,new British history' still has a great deal to offer when it comes to understanding the formation and conceptualization of British identity before the advent of the British state. This article focuses on the aftermath of the 1603 ,union of crowns' under James VI and I. Up to now it has been the consensus among historians that British identity was mostly limited to James himself and that he, rather clumsily, attempted to impose the idea of Britain on his unwilling subjects in England and Scotland. However, by paying more attention to the thoughts and aspirations about Britain, a different kind of British identity can be discerned. There were many individuals in both Scotland and England who believed that the union of crowns created one of the most powerful Protestant kingdoms in Europe. For these individuals British identity was a militant Protestant identity. They embraced the idea that Britain should be an active protector of Protestantism and that it should use this combined military might to extirpate the papal Antichrist. While the militant Protestant version of British identity was always a minority opinion, its existence reveals that there were alternative ways to thinking about Britain that did not necessarily originate with James VI and I, nor was it limited to or inhibited by traditional antagonisms between England and Scotland. [source] The Reign of James VI and I: the Birth of BritainHISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2003Pauline Croft This article considers recent work over the past twenty-five years on the reign of James VI and I. The author argues that the multiple monarchy created by James VI of Scotland's accession to the English throne in 1603 was one of the greatest formative moments in the history of the British Isles, creating a political unit that endured until 1922, with the emergence of the Irish Free State. However, the structural problems of that multiple monarchy were also the major underlying cause of the ,British' civil war , fought out in Scotland and Ireland as well as England , that broke out in 1642. [source] The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603,1605 , Diana NewtonTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 4 2006Theodore K. Rabb No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||